Improvement in faucets



UNITEDSTATES Patria'NT OFFICEo J. MAROHBANK AND W. H. HUIVIPHREY, OF LANSINGBURG, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FAUCETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 59,426, dated November 6, 1866.

and we do hereby declare that the following.

is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being hereby had to the accompanying drawings, which form and make a` part of this specification.

Like letters represent and refer to like or corresponding parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a faucet constructed according to our said improved plan, showing the different parts of the same, each more fully hereinafter described and set forth. Fig. 2 is also a perspective view of our said improved faucet, shown in a different position from what it is in Fig. 1, showing the bit C and the gearing G, by which the same is operated; also showing the pin F, each more fully hereinafter described and set forth. Fig. 3 is a view showing the bit C separated from the said faucet A; also showing the gearing G, cog-wheel H, and thumb-piece F, operated in the manner and for the purposes substantially as hereinafter fully described and set forth.

The nature of our said inventionv and improvements consists in combining a bit or other boring device, C, with a faucet, A, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein after described and set forth.

It also consists in attaching to the front portion of the faucet, having the bit O attached thereto, a shank or suitably constructed projection, by which means a brace may be attached to the said faucet when it is desired to apply the same to a cask or other vessel, substantially as hereinafter described and set forth.

It also consists in attaching the said bit G to the said faucet A, in such a manner that the said bit will be adjustable, so as to prevent the clogging up ofthe said faucet by the sediment contained in the vessel to which it is attached, substantially as hereinafter fully described and set forth.

Io enable others skilled in the art to which our invention relates to make and use the same,

we will here proceed to,y describe the construction and operation of the same, which is as follows, to wit:

A, Figs. l and 2, shows the body or tube of a common molasses-faucet, such as is now in general use. B shows the thread cut upon the end'of the same for the purpose of fastening the said faucet into a cask or other vessel. O, Figs. 1, 2, and 3, shows the bit, which is attached to the said faucet in any manner deemed best, and which may be of any shape or style desired. l

' We construct the said bit with two arms extending therefrom, as seen in Fig. 3, which arms t in corresponding recesses or grooves on the inside of the said faucet. The said bit C may then be worked backward and forward in the said faucet A by means of the rack and pinion. (Shown at H and Gr, Fig. 3.)

It will be seen that the said bit may be made adjustable by a great many different devices; but we have only described the rack and pinion, as being the most simple device known to us for that purpose.

E, Figs. 1 and 2, shows the gate which covers the opening to the faucet A. On the front and center of said gate E we construct a suitable-shaped projection or shank, D, t0

' upon the said gate E with but little or no eX- pense.

When it is desired to apply our` invention to what is called a crooked-neck faucet, it is obvious that the said shank or projection D cannot be cast upon the said faucet, butinay be attached thereto by any mechanical means thought best, without altering the character of our invention.

The mode of operation of our said combination faucet is as follows, to wit: The bit C is moved backward into the said faucet A, so that nothing but the poiutof the said bit projects beyond the edge of the said faucet. The object of this is to have the strain come upon the said bit where it is solid, and not upon the arms I I, as would be the. case if the bit was left in the position as shown at Fig. 2. A common brace is then applied to the projection or shank D, and the whole faucet now performs the functions of a bitor auger, and

;l1e cask or other vessel is tapped without any '.rouble or loss of material.

After the said faucet is at its proper posi- ;ion in the cask or other vessel which is being zapped, the brace is disconnected from the said projection D, and is not used again in connection with the said faucet until it is de- ;ired to remove the same, after the contents of ihe cask or other vessel has been exhausted.

rEhe faucet being in the proper position in :he cask or other vessel, and the brace renoved from the said projection, it is now lesired to remove the said bit C from the nouth of the said faucet, so as to give a clear passage for the material contained in the cask )r other vessel thus tapped, which is done by nlrning the thumb-piece F, which works the ack and pinion H and Gr, thus pushing iuward the said bit C, until a project-ion on one )f the arms I prevents it from going any farther, and also prevent-s it from dropping out of the said faucet A.

As we have before stated, a great many different mechanical devices may be attached to She said bit C for the purpose of making it adjustable; but we have only thought it necessary to describe the rack and pinion as being. the best adapted for that purpose.

According to the present method of tapping @asks and other like vessels, it requires at least `she services of ltwo 1nen,and cannot then be aczomplished without the loss of a great deal of the material containedin the cask, besides other inconveniences familiar to those who are in the habit of tapping casks and other like vessels; but by constructing a faucet combined with a bit, and worked in the manner heretofore described, according to our invention and improvements, one man, without any help, :an tap a cask or other vessel in one-half the time ordinarily occupied under the present system, and without the loss of a singlevdrop 3f the material contained in the cask so being tapped. The slight additional expense incurred in attaching the said bit to the faucet and in making the same adjustable will be fully compensated for in the material saved from the tapping of a single cask. The tapping of a cask of molasses according to the present method is always attended with a great deal of trouble, as well as loss of material. Our invention, it is claimed, will obviate all this, and will render the operation as simple and easy as merely boring a hole in acask with an augeror other like device. We have chiefly designed, and have so shown in the drawings, our invention as applied to a molassesfaucet; but it is obvious that it can be advantageously applied toany faucet where the hole in the cask'or other vessel has to be made before the faucet can be applied.

Having thus described the nature of our said invention and improvements, what We claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

l. The combination of an adjustable bit, C, or other boring device with the faucet Ain the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and set forth.

2. Combining with the faucet A and bit C a suitably-constructed shank or projection, D,

or other device, to which a brace may be ap plied, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and set forth.

3. The attaching of the said bit C to the faucet A in such a manner that the same will be adjustable, in the manner and for the purposes substantially as herein described and set forth.

In testimony whereof we have on this 3d day of May, 1866,' hereunto set our hands.

JOHN MARGHBANK. WM. H. HUMPHREY. Witnesses:

GHARLEs D. KELLUM, R. W. REILLE. 

